Man accused of killing victim with single gunshot to head

Nakia Simmons, 42, of Pompano Beach is accused in the death of Roy Brockington, 33. (Broward Sheriff's Office)

The dead man lying in the Lauderhill parking lot had a gunshot wound to the back of his head when police found him Friday morning.

Witness testimony and surveillance video led to Monday’s arrest of Nakia Simmons, 42, of Pompano Beach, according to an arrest affidavit. He was picked up in Hollywood.

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Roy Brockington, 33, was found at 6:20 a.m. Friday in a parking lot at 5356 NW 27th St., west of Florida’s Turnpike and south of West Oakland Park Boulevard. He was pronounced dead at the scene, said Lt. Mike Santiago, a spokesman for the Lauderhill Police Department.

Surveillance video from the 5400 block of Northwest 27th Street showed two men approach Brockington. One of the men shot him in the head. They then got into a parked white car with its lights on, the affidavit said.

Later Friday, an attorney contacted police saying his client had witnessed the killing, according to the affidavit. The woman told police Simmons drove his white Chrysler to the location of the shooting, tapped Brockington on the shoulder, told him he wanted to talk to him and shot him once in the back of the head before fleeing, the affidavit said.

Simmons and a white Chrysler registered to him looked the same as the shooter and the car in the video, according to the affidavit.

That evidence, bolstered by a witness “positively identifying Nakia Simmons as the person who shot and killed Roy Brockington,” led to Monday’s arrest, court records show.

At a court hearing Tuesday morning, Broward Judge Kim Theresa Mollica ordered Simmons to remain jailed without bond over the objection of an assistant public defender, Hector Romero, who argued that the evidence at hand was insufficient to do so.

“If the state is asking the court to hold Mr. Simmons without bond, which is the most severe type of pre-trial detention, they should make some effort to at least come in here with some evidence and they’ve done nothing,” Romero said.

During a court hearing Tuesday, a judge ordered Simmons to remain in jail without bond. (Broward courts)